DayTracker is your station's air archive. It records your on-air signal around the clock, lays out the entire day as a labeled timeline of songs, breaks, voicetracks, live-mic moments, and silence, and lets you scrub or play back any second of it — right up to the present.
It also produces airchecks: clean MP3 extracts of any time range you choose, either on demand or on a schedule.
~/Documents/DayTracker/. Audio, markers, manifest, and pre-rendered waveform peaks.AutoCast sends DayTracker the same audio it's sending to the transmitter, along with a running stream of markers — every song boundary, every break, every voicetrack in and out. DayTracker writes the audio to a single MP3 for the day and the markers to a CSV, both anchored to wall-clock time. The timeline you see is rendered live from those two files.
If AutoCast hiccups, DayTracker holds wall-clock position. A short network stall doesn't slide the rest of the recording out of sync with the markers — DayTracker fills the gap with silence and keeps going. The recording always lines up with what was actually on the air, second for second.
You don't need to start or stop DayTracker each day. As soon as the wall clock crosses midnight, it rolls to a fresh file for the new day and keeps recording. Yesterday's recording stays right where it was, complete and untouched.
DayTracker only listens. It never sends audio anywhere, never modifies AutoCast's files, never touches the playout chain. It's a one-way recorder and a viewer. You can run it on the same machine as AutoCast or on a separate logging machine — DayTracker doesn't care, as long as AutoCast can reach it.
To stay focused and do its job well, DayTracker is deliberately not:
DayTracker does one thing: log your air signal and let you find any moment of it again. And it does it thoroughly.